Example sentences of "[vb past] were [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 2 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 3 | About half the faults of the eventual 955 types collated were in the outer structure . |
| 4 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 5 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 6 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 7 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 8 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |